MS 1849-b Maps of F. H. Cushingʹs excavation at Florida sites
Sites are follows: Key Marco, Bear Point, Hope Mound (Negative 45012-C), Tarpon Springs Mound (Negative 45012-A), Safford Mound (Negative 45012-B), Region about Tarpon Springs (Negative 45012).
MS 3692 Among the Clam Shell Mounds and Ancient Camp Sites of Vashon Island
1 Photograph
Also includes Camp Sites and Mounds of Vashon Island (Additional Report). [1938?]
MS 7065 Letter to Charles Rau
Rau, Charles, 1826-1887
Kenyon College
Concerns certain views of Sir John Lubbock regarding mounds and including a brief sketch of Davisʹs career as a mound explorer. Also, a Kenyon College commencement program of September 4, 1833, attached.
MS 4611 Map of Hopewell Mounds in Section 3 and 4, Wyoming twp (Norton Group), Grand Rapids, Michigan
Hess, J.
MS 4090 Scrapbook of the State Archaeologic Society of Indiana, 1875 to 1885
Case, L.B. (Richmond, Indiana)
Sweeny, Robert Ormsby, 1831-1902
Includes letter of 3-25-1877 (#157) from Robert Ormsby Sweeney, St. Paul, Minnesota, with sketches re mound #2, Starvation Point group, Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota.
MS 7390 Notes on Arkansas mounds
Marvin Jeter states that about ten per cent of the notes are in Palmer's hand and the rest are in someone elses.
John Peabody Harrington photographs from California
16 Photographic prints
2 Copy negatives
Negatives and photographic prints taken by John Peabody Harrington in Santa Barbara and Ventura County, California in 1923. John Peabody Harrington (1884-1961) was an ethnologist and linguist who specialized in the Native peoples of California and served with the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology from 1915 to 1955. Beyond his efforts to document innumerable Native languages, Harrington also collected objects for the Bureau of Ethnology and on his own. Photographs in this collection accompanied the objects he sold to or collected for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.
Edwin Hamilton Davis papers
Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George), 1821-1888
The collection consists primarily of a portfolio of 92 drawings of Davis' collection of artifacts and related documentation. The collection also contains letters to Davis, notes, and drawings relating to Peruvian, Mexican, and Central American artifacts, as well as drawings by Ephraim G. Squier presumably used as references for some of …
Alabama Museum films
United States. National Park Service
Four films documenting various excavations in the southeastern U. S.: Temples and Peace [Mound State Monument Museum Construction, c. 1939]; Shell Mounds in the Tennessee Valley [DeJarnette Excavation, c. 1960]. Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time …
Archeological specimens, mostly from mound sites in Tennessee, Iowa, Indiana, Georgia, Ohio; signed in lower left with Shindler monogram
Brown, R.
Annotations by Shindler, giving scale of drawing, locality and collector of specimen, appear on originals.
